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Where public water supplies are concerned, additional TABLE 2 requirements may be prescribed by the Department of Health COUNTY ORDINANCES IN CALIFORNIA Services: Prior to the release of the 1968 edition of this CONCERNING THE CONSTRUCTION AND DESTRUCTION OF WELTS report, only three counties and a few cities had adopted (As of December 1981) ordinances regulating the construction of water wells. In 1967, legislation was enacted authorizing the State (through the California Regional Water Quality Control Boards) to Ordinance Date require cities and counties to adopt satisfactory ordinances County Number Adopted Remarks governing well standards in critical areas. If they did not, the State would adopt such ordinances for the cities and Alameda 73-68 7/17/73 counties. (This procedure is outlined in Sections 13800 Butte 1845 8/2/77 through 13806 of the Water Code.) Contra Costa 1189 1/14/58 Today, 33 counties have well ordinances establish- Del Norte 73-30 11/12/73 ing standards for the construction of all wells within their Fresno 470-A-39 10/22/74 boundaries. They are listed in Table 2. Six other counties Humboldt 897 12/21/72 have adopted ordinances that deal with specific kinds of Inyo 309 10/4/76 wells or conditions (as, for example, individual domestic Kings 365 1/13/76 wells only). While this latter group of ordinances provides Los Angeles 10075 9/1/70 protection for the users of water from the specified wells in Madera 412 3/16/76, these areas, they do little to protect the quality of the ground water resource (in contrast with the 33 counties Mariposa 373 9/18/73 listed in Table 2). Table 3 lists the six counties with Mendocino 1135 8/28/73 ordinances for specific kinds of wells. Thirty-four of the Merced 752 6/10/75 total of 39 county ordinances specify the standards presented Mono 75-459 8/26/75 in the 1968 edition, with modifications where appropriate Monterey 1967 5/29/73 (all of which are more stringent than those in the 1968 edition). Napa 335 12/1/70 One-third of the 429 cities in California have also Orange 2607 7/18/72 adopted well ordinances. Many cities have working arrange- Placer 1498E 5/9/72 Amended 1977, 1981 meats or agreements with county governments so it is Sacramento 508 10/26/55 difficult to state the exact number of cities employing well San Bernardino 1954 10/15/74 construction standards. Cities with ordinances are situated San Diego 4286 4/3/74 in the following counties (number of cities with ordinances San Joaquin 1862 12/21/71 in parenthesis): San Luis Obispo 1271 5/7/73 Alameda (4) Orange (26) San Joaquin (6) San Mateo 2:/ 2413 1/11/77 Santa Barbara 2769 9/29/75- Fresno (8) Placer 1) San Luis Obispo (6) Kern (1) Riverside (1) San Mateo (5) Santa Clara 2 6 10/14/75 Ordinance of the Santa Los Angeles (51) Sacramento (1) Santa Barbara (2) -� 75- Merced 3 San Bernardino (1) Stanislaus (1) Clara Valley Water Dist. Santa Cruz 1577 2/16/71 Nevada 1 San Diego (l0)1/ Sutter (( Ventura Shasta 479 6/30/69 9) Sonoma 1594 12/18/72 Stanislaus NS443 6/5/73 Since it has no ground water resource, the eleventh city Tulare 1758 8/13/74 Amended 4/16/76 in San Diego County, Coronado, has no ordinance. Ventura 2372 8/31/70 Amended 10/1/79 Yolo 765 9/7/76 1 Predecessor ordinance numbers 1100 (12/15/55) and 2324 (7/8/75)• 2/ Separate ordinance for subdivision wells - NS1203.22 (4/21/64).